I'm already preparing for the next 9/11

[Brock Landers]

yeah, i can really see the corolation between american FINALLY getting a good shot at everything people wanted and need vs being attacked again.

Whatever

[fiveteamer]

AUSSIE PUNTER might be dumber than pimike. Not sure, but that's the way I'm leaning right now...

[robzilla]

Now that Obama was elected, you just know it's coming within the next 4 years.

Bigboydan...I didnt know you were an idiot. Everyone likes america more now that Obama is prez.

The whole world hated George W and McCain.

[robzilla]

withdrawel of our troops will show that we give up, thus giving terrorists hope that its okay to carry out whatever plans they have. its no joke boys, its gonna happen. those fukers are going to do something to our country and its gonna happen while we have this bullshiiter in office. he is weak and his lack of knowledge about war and control put us all at risk.

There are no such thing as terrorists, just people who are protesting to such a degree that you notice.

[daggerkobe]

The first one happened early in Bush's presidency. You saying there are terrorist sitting around thinking about only plotting if someone soft is the president? I can picture Bin Laden kicking rocks in disgust in his cave if McCain had won.

8 months is "early"? 8 months of WARNINGS.... 8 months of his anti-terrorism expert begging to have a face to face meeting so he can warn Bush, only to be repeatedly told NO.

8months of urgent presidential memos titled "Al Qaeda determined to attack within the US".... "Osama planning to hijack planes"..... "Imminent attack"..... are you fvcking kidding me?


"This was not something that had to happen."

"They simply failed."
— Thomas H. Kean, Chair of the independent commission investigating 9/11. Kean is a Republican appointed by Bush

"They don't have any excuse because the information was in their lap, and they didn't do anything to prevent it."—

Senator Richard Shelby, then ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee; member of the joint intelligence committee that investigated 9/11

"I don't believe any longer that it's a matter of connecting the dots. I think they had a veritable blueprint, and we want to know why they didn't act on it."

— Senator Arlen Specter, a Republican member of the joint intelligence committee that investigated 9/11

"Should we have known? Yes, we should have. Could we have known? Yes, I believe we could have because of the hard targets [CIA operatives were tracking]."

— Representative Porter Goss, Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; Republican co-chairman of the joint intelligence committee that investigated 9/11

"I cannot say for sure that there wasn't a possibility we could have come across some lead that would have led us to the hijackers."

— FBI Director Robert Mueller

"As of September 10th, each of us knew everything we needed to know to tell us there was a possibility of what happened on September 11th."

— Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff (described by the Associated Press as "the Bush administration's top anti-terrorism prosecutor")

"Had one human being or a common group of human beings sat down with all that information, we could have gotten to the hijackers before they flew those four airplanes either into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon or the ground of Pennsylvania."

— Senator Bob Graham, then Chairman of the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence; Democratic co-chairman of the joint intelligence panel that investigated 9/11

"If you put all those pieces together, I don't say you could have prevented September 11th, but there might have been some warning, had it been handled properly."

— Vice President Dick Cheney